Yale University’s Environmental Performance Index, which tracks 40 performance indicators—including “Sanitation & Drinking Water”—in order to pinpoint the most environmentally friendly countries in the world. Additional performance indicators tracked by the EPI include environmental health, climate change mitigation, air quality, waste management, biodiversity, fishery populations, and more.

Sounds a bit like "stuff in place doing things" rather than actual quality tests. If so a bit of greenwashing seems feasible.

Sounds more like a development index than a quality index.

[–] SierpinskiDreieck@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

Which is even wilder. They are acting like agricultural and oil-drilling practices in the US (and elsewhere too) are not degrading the global fresh water base.

This is propaganda.

[–] Benign@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

Two main issues I see here:

they don't care if it is tap or bottle
they rely on hospitals reporting on contaminated water as a cause of medical issues or something

I other words: Only bottled water available, and hospitals don't report on water contamination issues - > 💯